Fragments of Noir

Sunday, 24 February 2019

Last Payday

Last Payday
(Connick/McLean)
Harry Connick Jr
1991

Saturday, 23 February 2019

Ultimately parsing Brewer's republished works suggests there ia a place for him in Noir's tumultuous barroom valhalla.

excerpt from
The Brutalist
Chris R. Morgan
Los Angeles review of books
2013

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-brutalist-a-gil-brewer-retrospective/

Only in Stories

The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation.

Graham Greene
Third Man

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Third Man
1949

Friday, 22 February 2019

Peter Liepke

Misconduct and Regret

He felt sandbagged. Doomsday, Armageddon. Booze begets instant misconduct and regret. He walked to the couch and fell down.

James Ellroy
Perfidia
2014
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/27565415-perfidia

Thursday, 21 February 2019

Mosaic Noir #94

The Offence

Asphalt Jungle

Rear Window

The Prowler

Millers Crossing

Maltese Falcon

Boardwalk Empire

Third Man

Don't Look for Me

Don't look for me

I'll get ahead

Remember darling

Don't smoke in bed

Don't Smoke in Bed

(Robison)

Nina Simone

1958

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Robert Stanley

Wednesday, 20 February 2019

The French Had a Name for It #2

Lift to the Scaffold

Jusqu'au Dernier

Touchez Pas Au Grisbi

Le Doulos

Le Portes De La Nuit

Panique

Rififi

Wages of Fear

Une Si Jolie Petit Plage

Classe Tous Risques

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/deep-focus/french-film-noir

Lonely Rooms

I see (Marlowe) always in a lonely street, in lonely rooms, puzzled but never quite defeated.

Raymond Chandler
Letter to Maurice Guinness
Feb 21st 1959

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unknown
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/marlowe.html

Tuesday, 19 February 2019

Susan Meiselas

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Magnum Photos

http://www.susanmeiselas.com/early-years/carnival-strippers/#id=girl-show

In this Town

...... i can't climb stairs that are too steep or go to high places like the bar at the Top of the Mark. But there are plenty of street-level bars in this town.

Vertigo
Alfred Hitchcock
1958